Restoring the sagebrush ecosystem: Wyoming Honor Farm

By Kristine Galloway Inmates at the Wyoming Honor Farm, a minimum security corrections facility in Riverton, set up a greenhouse at the Honor Farm in June. They are exclusively growing about 40,000 seedlings of various types of sagebrush for the Abandoned Mine Lands Native Plants Project through the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and the […]

Restoring the sagebrush ecosystem: Lander Middle School

By Kristine Galloway Educational outreach at Lander Middle School was the first piece implemented for the Abandoned Mine Lands Native Plants Project through the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and the Bureau of Land Management. That project is part of an inter-agency effort to restore the fractured sagebrush steppe ecosystem across the U.S. West. The […]

Federal agency agrees with DEQ determination on Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mine permits and reclamation plans.

On September 20, 2019, the United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) responded to a recent citizen complaint filed by the Powder River Basin Resource Council (PRBRC). In OSMRE’s response, the federal oversight agency agreed with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) assessment that the Belle Ary and Eagle Butte mines are […]

DEQ offers near real-time air quality monitoring stations throughout Wyoming

Citizens near the Pathfinder Reservoir in Carbon and Natrona Counties may be experiencing smoke pollution due to the Pedro Mountain wildfire. The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) offers near real-time air quality data for Wyoming’s monitoring stations and health effects information to help the public interpret current conditions. WYVISNET-Online Monitoring Stations Health Effects “WYVISNET features live […]

Open Air Training

In the fall of 2018, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Air Quality Division (AQD) launched Open Air, which can be accessed at: https://openair.wyo.gov.  Open Air provides the public with access to data, public records, and other information about Division-permitted facilities. Open Air, which is part of the IMPACT data system, was designed to allow the […]